Child's Christmas thank-you note to 'Gam' (Amy FitzSimons Walker), page 2 of 2, signed 'Dee'
Book 3, Page 8 ·1950–1980
Transcription
[Printed in pencil in large childish block letters, in two columns side by side on a sheet of ruled notebook paper. The left column continues the text from page 007; the right column is the closing and signature, written only on the upper two ruled lines of the sheet.]
Left column:
christmas. I want a
long list of things.
I wish you could be
here for christmas.
Right column (top two lines only):
My Love to both
of you. Love Dee
AI Notes
Second page (verso) of the child’s thank-you note begun on page 007. Two columns of text appear side by side on the sheet — the left column continues the front and closes ‘I wish you could be here for christmas,’ and the right column reads ‘My Love to both of you. Love Dee.’ The signature ‘Dee’ is a family nickname; the writer is one of the Walker grandchildren (not Emma Dee Walker Corbell of book-002 — this ‘Dee’ is a generation later, a small child writing in beginner’s block printing in pencil). The five-dollar Christmas gift acknowledged is the occasion for the letter. Every word is legible in beginner’s block letters; ‘My Love’ and ‘Love Dee’ have a characteristic flourish on the D.
The note began on page 007. ‘Gam’ was the family’s name for Amy FitzSimons Walker; ‘Dee’ here is presumably one of her grandchildren — a different ‘Dee’ from her elder daughter Emma Dee Walker Corbell (b. 1915), who would have been a grown woman by the date of this child’s letter.